Dude tbh I had to install chrome on a friends laptop last week (not because he couldn’t, just because we needed it and I happened to be the one on the keys), and I legit couldn’t do it for a sec. I had to go to google, google “google chrome,” get the DL page, dl, run installer, etc.
I literally said “goddammit why can’t I just type ‘flatpak install google chrome’ in the terminal?!” (Would have gone with apt/dnf, but I wouldn’t know his sudo password, though he could have just entered it had it been needed).
I can barely install an app on windows (anymore), and I think linux is actually easier as long as you don’t have to compile from source. Less likely to get Gogle-Chorme.exe too…
Yeah when are comfortable typing commands it’s obviously much easier to just pull up the terminal and do that and since dependencies are shared between applications in Linux it prevents your drive from becoming bloated and it’s so much easier to update everything using a few commands, but most people are not comfortable typing even basic words let alone commands, every time I’ve seen my manager who apparently used to be a programmer once, struggle to type a sentence making spelling mistakes in ever word, I’m glad he doesn’t code anymore, cause most of the time when he runs a command he makes some mistake and screws things up and then I have to fix it.
Hell still sometimes I’ll type “flatpack” instead and it’ll just say “hey dumbass that’s not a thing,” but even then I just go “lol whoops” and fix it, no problem!
Like sure learning the commands is an adjustment but once you learn a couple I still think Linux ends up being easier for simple stuff like that installing/updating, etc.
Dude tbh I had to install chrome on a friends laptop last week (not because he couldn’t, just because we needed it and I happened to be the one on the keys), and I legit couldn’t do it for a sec. I had to go to google, google “google chrome,” get the DL page, dl, run installer, etc.
I literally said “goddammit why can’t I just type ‘flatpak install google chrome’ in the terminal?!” (Would have gone with apt/dnf, but I wouldn’t know his sudo password, though he could have just entered it had it been needed).
I can barely install an app on windows (anymore), and I think linux is actually easier as long as you don’t have to compile from source. Less likely to get Gogle-Chorme.exe too…
Yeah when are comfortable typing commands it’s obviously much easier to just pull up the terminal and do that and since dependencies are shared between applications in Linux it prevents your drive from becoming bloated and it’s so much easier to update everything using a few commands, but most people are not comfortable typing even basic words let alone commands, every time I’ve seen my manager who apparently used to be a programmer once, struggle to type a sentence making spelling mistakes in ever word, I’m glad he doesn’t code anymore, cause most of the time when he runs a command he makes some mistake and screws things up and then I have to fix it.
Hell still sometimes I’ll type “flatpack” instead and it’ll just say “hey dumbass that’s not a thing,” but even then I just go “lol whoops” and fix it, no problem!
Like sure learning the commands is an adjustment but once you learn a couple I still think Linux ends up being easier for simple stuff like that installing/updating, etc.